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Acting

Esmond Knight

Career: Active from 1928 to 1984, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 19
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Peeping Tom
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 48 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Esmond Knight Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.8, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.5, average 2.7
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 6
Psychological Thriller 2
Character-Driven 2
Intrigue 2
Wartime Espionage 2
Suspenseful 2
British Cinema 2
Historical Setting 2
Melancholy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

112

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1980s

12 titles · average score 65

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

26

as Second Elder

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

75

TV show · as Mr. Galbraith

Fortunes of War

70

TV show · as Liversage

The Element of Crime

71

as Osborne

The Invisible Man

72

TV show · as Blind Man

A Voyage Round My Father

73

as Judge

My Cousin Rachel

TV show · as Sam Bates

King Lear

68

as Old Man

Fame Is the Spur

TV show · as Old Etchells

Antony & Cleopatra

as Lepidus

Troilus & Cressida

as Priam

Drake's Venture

as John Dee

1970s

21 titles · average score 71

Return of the Saint

68

TV show · as Paul Hanson

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Old Capulet

The Man in the Iron Mask

65

as Armand

I, Claudius

92

TV show · as Domitius

Robin and Marian

68

as Old Defender

Fall of Eagles

75

TV show · as General Ruzski

Churchill's People

TV show · as Penda's Father

Yellow Dog

as Mundt

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

55

as Doctor

New Scotland Yard

TV show · as General Travers

Elizabeth R

80

TV show · as Bishop de Quadra

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

73

TV show · as Captain Cutler

1960s

31 titles · average score 73

The Champions

70

TV show · as Minister

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Helmut

Public Eye

83

TV show · as Dr. Stowe

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

81

as Old Judge

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as President

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Dom Issigri

The Saint

74

TV show · as Antoine Louvois

Z-Cars

72

TV show · as Albert Wallace

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

TV show · as Hugh Armitage / Colonel Grahame

A for Andromeda

TV show · as Professor Ernest Reinhart

Peeping Tom

87

as Arthur Baden

Danger Man

76

TV show · as Baron

1950s

17 titles · average score 63

The Third Man

73

TV show · as Theodore Ratteau

Interpol Calling

TV show · as Von Schriber

Battle of the V-1

55

as Stricker

The Invisible Man

71

TV show · as Wilson

The Prince and the Showgirl

58

as Hoffman

Helen of Troy

60

as High Priest

The Dark Avenger

57

Dialogue Coach

The Steel Key

as Prof. Newman

Girdle of Gold

as Evans the Milk

The River

83

as The Father

Gone to Earth

56

as Abel Woodus

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer / Bubnov, a Capmaker

1940s

12 titles · average score 75

The Red Shoes

91

as Livy

Hamlet

82

as Bernardo

Black Narcissus

85

as The Old General

The End of the River

as Dantos

Uncle Silas

51

as Dr. Bryerly

Holiday Camp

67

as Camp Announcer

A Canterbury Tale

81

as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

The Halfway House

65

as David Davies

Henry V

85

as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

The Silver Fleet

58

as Von Schiffer

This England

as Vicar's Son

Contraband

84

as Mr. Pidgeon

1930s

18 titles · average score 55

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

62

as Raille

Weddings Are Wonderful

as Guy Rogers

The Vicar of Bray

as Dennis Melross

as Pavo Collin

Crime Unlimited

62

as Pete Borden

Dandy Dick

as Tony Mardon

as Curly Blake

Waltzes from Vienna

41

as Johann Strauss, the Younger

Girls Will Be Boys

as Geoffrey Dawson

The Bermondsey Kid

as Eddie Martin

as John Lenley

as Davy Summers

1920s

1 title

as Radio operator